Thursday, April 23, 2009

In all its mellifluous and macho-maimed magnificence: my new novel, Blood's A Rover.

Knopf will drop this atom bomb of a book on you September 22. Your job is to groove it and grok its groin-grabbing gravity between now and then. From that point on: you handsell it to the book-buying public; I appear at your store and drive legions of my fans and your customers nuts; we all make out and give publishing a cash-cascading and profit-pronging boost in a bum marketplace!!!

Dig it!!!!!

The novel covers 1968-1972. It's a baaaaaad-ass historical romance -- huge in scope, deep in its exploration of the era, filled with my trademark craaaaazy shit, and suffused with a heightened sense of belief and the corollaries of political conversation and revolution. Oh, yeah -- this is a book for these times!

7 comments:

Lex:When did James Ellroy Bcome Harlan Ellison?! From the title 2 the way this blurb is written, Ellroy has obviously bn possessed by Ellison's mid-'70's personality -- & I LIKE Ellroy! & Ellison! WTF? Ellroy's BLACK DAHLIA, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL & BIG NOWHERE R all BRILLIANT! But this blurb sounds JUST LIKE Harlan Ellison (brilliant SF/fantasy writer, especially from '65 2 '75) in about 1972, & BLOOD'S A ROVER was a book title Ellison was gonna use B4 he burned-out & got old. So: Is it me? Is it the drugz? Could it B both? More Dtails, please...?-- TAD.

Ellroy was out here promoting Bush for som many years...his kinda guy...I love his writing but he has gotten so cliche-ish since White Jazz... and the politics, I could cre less..but I think it has confused his line...Jomes, yeah, maybe you should become a lutheran minister...not trying to be hard here, but the tough guy stuff and republicanism is just getting boring...you are repeating yourself...find that vital line you had earlier...stop being so sure of yourself....can you do that? I hope so as I like your writing...get with the new jazz motherfucker...

just so Ellroy when he read this does not blow me off...let me correct...care, james...sorry for the bad fingers...I mean what I feel as a reader, you lost something and are a great writer...your Bush bullshit was not funny...we don't need a new era like that for your material...learn some new language...you might be better off for it...if you remember your old speed days, you will get my meaning...

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